. >>> hello, everyone, you're in the cnn newsroom. we begin with politics, presidential politics. the president has two important campaigns stops in virginia today. in his own words, quote, if and when we get virginia, we will win this election. end quote. he won it in 2008. the stakes can't get any higher with. however this president not taking virginia for granted at all, is he? >> no, not at all, fredricka. the state has 13 electoral votes. very important to the president's reelection efforts. as you mentioned, he did win in 2008 but he was the first democrat to do so since lindon johnson in 1964. so it is by no means a reliably blue state. but the obama campaign is helping to keep virginia in the blue column. they are doing so, they hope, by arguing that the president will look out for the pr of middle class wheel mitt romney cares more about helping out the real wael think. let's see what he had to say at his first stop in glenn oak, virginia. he got rained on but let's hear what he had to say about mitt romney and republican fles congress. >> they will spend a lot of time ta